Renato FreyOct 8, 2025
Daniel Lakens

People sometimes say they do not have time to do open science. But they can use the time they would have needed 40 years ago to send and request paper copies of articles to read the literature.

Somehow we never acknowledge where we gained time that we can invest in open science.

Oct 4, 2025 at 7:14amBuffer
Show threadJudith RosmalenOct 4, 2025
@lakens In my experience it saves time, especially preregistrations. They make the analyses and writing process much more efficient.
Show threadDan GoodmanOct 4, 2025
@lakens I wish people would do it too but this argument isn't very convincing. It was a very different job back then. Many fewer students, less admin, less competition for and time spent writing grants, lower expectations of "productivity", etc.
Show threadDaniel LakensOct 4, 2025

@neuralreckoning do you really think so? Did you know the 'publish or perish' sentence comes from 1927? And that people said exactly what you said in 1970's?

I think we have always filled up all our time through bad time management. Nothing new in that respect, I think.

Show threadDan GoodmanOct 4, 2025
@lakens this is my impression but I'd be happy to have a look at any historical trends data for say student:staff ratios, number of PhD students / postdocs supervised per PI, number of papers published annually per PI, etc. If it just increases over time then it would have also been true in the 1970s.
Show threadDaniel LakensOct 4, 2025
@neuralreckoning have you ever listened to Paul Meehl's lectures? Or read his 7 holy cows of academia? So at least it was the same in the 80's, and he is still doing paper copies of papers at that time.